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The Innovator’s Mindset: Collaboration as Competitive Advantage

IdeaScale

When creating an innovation strategy, consider internally and externally prioritizing collaboration. This helps you turn valuable resources into a competitive advantage. The post The Innovator’s Mindset: Collaboration as Competitive Advantage appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Why Collaboration Is Critical in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

In such circumstances, the emphasis often shifts toward preserving existing assets, reducing expenditures, and maintaining the status quo, which can hinder the organization’s ability to adapt, pivot, and thrive in a competitive environment.

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How Can You Run An Idea Creation Competition?

IdeaScale

Creating this culture in your organization increases employee engagement and promotes collaboration. One way to inspire the innovation process is to hold an idea generation competition. The post How Can You Run An Idea Creation Competition? Innovation increases brand loyalty. Here’s how. Create … Continued.

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Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Within the series of four posts, I have been emphasising that cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution, the necessary parts need connecting.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

Learning Objectives: Review the challenges of balancing innovation and current user demands: Explore the fundamental principles behind balancing innovation and user needs, and understand the potential consequences of neglecting either aspect Align innovation with user needs: Learn techniques for gathering user feedback, analyzing market trends, and (..)

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The Five Building Blocks of Collaborative Innovation

IdeaScale

Are you looking for ways to inspire collaborative innovation in your organization? Collaborative innovation involves bringing together ideas that can result in something groundbreaking. It is typically achieved by collaborating with larger organizations that can provide perspective and strategic development.

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Sometimes You Should Collaborate Instead of Compete

Innovation Excellence

Yet all of these companies, along with many others, collaborate at places like the Composites Institute (IACMI). GUEST POST from Greg Satell Boeing and Airbus are arch-rivals, competing vigorously over decades for supremacy in the global aviation market, much like DowDupont and BASF do in chemicals.

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The D&I Garden: Seeds of Innovation that Grow into Creative Breakthroughs

Speaker: Donald Fan, Senior Director of the Global Office of Culture, Diversity & Inclusion at Walmart Inc.

In the digital era, rife with uncertainty and ambiguity, innovation plays an essential role in sustaining organic growth and outperforming the global competition. By exploring scientific studies and corporate practices from Walmart Inc., Donald Fan will show how to connect those dots.

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The New Tech Toolbelt: Digital Twins, IoT, Cobots, & More

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Supply chains need tools that elevate decision-making and boost ROI as well as respond effectively to demand fluctuations, customer preferences, and competition.

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Business Models Changing the Landscape of Growth and Innovation

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President, Innovationedge

Webinar participants will walk away inspired and motivated to advance their leadership skills from building new capabilities, changing culture, piloting several innovation approaches, to tailoring unique solutions to win in very competitive markets. January 28, 2020 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM GMT.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.